Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness

by Lisa Appignanesi

Book Overview

A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad?

Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605988146
• ISBN13: 9781605988146
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"